The most sacred duty of our political leaders seems to have become hurling allegations against one another. Turn to any news channel on the TV at any time and you will hear some politician accusing another one of some crime. The Prime Minister accuses the Leader of the Opposition of chicanery. The Chief Minister of Delhi accuses the Prime Minister of possessing fraudulent academic degrees. In Kerala which is going to the polls next week, every candidate’s speeches are spiced with aspersions cast on the integrity of his opponents. In addition to all the domestic laundry washing carried out in the public places, the Keralite is condemned to endure much laundry brought from Delhi by all the significant leaders including the Prime Minister. Moulding Kerala in the Modi way A Dalit student was raped and killed brutally (or killed and then raped, as reports have it) recently in Kerala. The police carried out the mandatory investigation in the most perfunctory manner because
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